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Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Whitzermur had fast become the Coconut Rum Ball King of the Quad-Cities Bernie Kopell Appreciation Society. 

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It is impossible to avoid the subject this morning. I really did want to lead off with something different today, but when a former president dies, that’s the news for a few days. Greg covered the news of the death of former President Jimmy Carter here. Carter reached the ripe old age of 100 and had been in hospice care for what seemed like a record amount of time, so his passing wasn’t a surprise. 

Most of Carter’s presidency happened while I was finishing up high school. I wasn’t much of news junkie then, but I was aware enough that Carter was the first president and candidate I ever voted against when I was old enough.

My Townhall colleague Sarah Arnold covered some of the reactions to Carter’s death, including this one from President-elect Donald Trump:

“I just heard of the news about the passing of President Jimmy Carter. Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as President understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the Greatest Nation in History,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Melania and I are thinking warmly of the Carter Family and their loved ones during this difficult time. We urge everyone to keep them in their hearts and prayers.” 

A lot of people like to remember Carter fondly for the humanitarian work he did during his very long post-presidency. The awfulness of his tenure in the White House tends to get buried under all of the decades after it, or so the Democrats hope. 

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Robert wrote a detailed breakdown on a lot of what Jimmy Carter got wrong in just four short years. One of his supposed triumphs wasn’t one at all: 

Carter received a great deal of praise, as well as a Nobel Peace Prize, for the Camp David Accords, but in reality, they accomplished little. The final agreement had Israel making substantial territorial concessions in exchange for promises that Egypt would not attack Israel, which the Egyptians kept because U.S. foreign aid was made contingent upon peace. Other than that, the Accords brought no peace to the Middle East. They legitimized the existence of the “Palestinian” people, a propaganda invention of the KGB in the 1960s, and advanced the claim that Israel was occupying Palestinian territory to which only Israel had a legitimate claim. After his presidency, Carter wrote several books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that have brought him charges of anti-Semitism; the deep bias of the Camp David Accords strongly suggests that, even at that time, he had an animus toward Israel. His palpable lack of sympathy for the Jews of Israel, who are permanently under siege, continued to the end of his long life. 

It’s the anti-Semitism that I remember more than Habitat for Humanity or any of the other fluffy post-presidency stuff. I’ve thought about it a lot while the Democrats have been turning blind eyes to all of the “Free Palestine” protests this past year. That’s Jimmy Carter’s legacy. 

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The New York Times wrote an article about Carter’s habit of criticizing his successors, violating an unwritten code among ex-presidents. That’s rich, given how poorly he performed in the role. Until Joe Biden came along, every man who followed Carter to the Oval Office was far better at the gig, even Barack Obama. OK, maybe The Lightbringer was only a little better at the gig. 

The headline today promised that I would have something nice to say about Carter, and I’m getting to that now. Jimmy Carter’s disastrous turn as the 39th president hastened the arrival of Ronald Reagan as the 40th president. Who knows how it might have gone if Carter had been successful? 

Trump said that we all owe Carter a debt of gratitude. I don’t think he had Carter’s paving the way for Reagan in mind when he wrote that, but I’ll amend it for my own purposes. I will be forever grateful that Carter’s ineptitude led to the 1980 election of our greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.

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